A Plane Crash Devastates The Figure Skating Community—Again
Sarah Hughes explains how the plane crash near Washington DC has impacted the tight-knit figure skating community.
CNN7d
Plane crash kills world champion figure skaters and the ‘future’ of the sport in a tragic case of déjà vu
US Figure Skating has not confirmed the total number ... skating team headed to the world figure skating championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. That disaster killed not just elite athletes ...
US figure skating treads an unfortunately familiar ground: Rebuilding after aviation tragedy
There are no words to comfort anybody who’s been affected by a plane crash. In an instant, many lives can be violently cut ...
At least 14 members of US Figure Skating team were on American Airlines flight that crashed in DC
At least 14 members of the US Figure Skating team were on the American Airlines flight that collided mid-air with a military ...
U.S. and Russian figure skaters are among the victims of the D.C.-area plane crash
At least a dozen figure skaters, coaches and their family members were on the plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., ...
Colorado Springs mourns loss of 28 U.S. Figure Skating team members in plane crash
On Monday, the City of Colorado Springs came together to remember the 28 members of the U.S. Figure Skating community who ...
'Hearts are heavy': 14 members of figure skating community among victims of DC plane crash
Figure skaters and coaches returning from the U.S. national championships were aboard the American Airlines flight that ...
In figure skating community, grief of plane crash spans geography and generations
As the figure skating community grappled with the deaths of more than 15 skaters, coaches and parents, the grief was felt ...
2 figure skaters from The Skating Club of Boston, their mothers and coaches among D.C. plane crash victims
The Skating Club of Boston lost two coaches, two young skaters and their two mothers in the deadly crash of American Airlines ...
Russian skating couple, world champions in 1990s, were in crashed US airliner
Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American ...
The Washington Post7d
Figure skating community reels from losses of athletes, coaches and family
In February 1961, a plane carrying the U.S. figure skating team to that year’s world championships in Prague crashed in Brussels, killing 73 people. All 18 members of the team died.